Thursday, October 26, 2017

Staunton, October 26 – Vladimir Stygashev,
the speaker of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Khakassia, yesterday
accused the FSB of arbitrary and illegal actions in putting pressure on
deputies and officials and warned his fellow deputies that the Russian security
service “can come after anyone” unless something is done.

In recent weeks, the FSB has been
investigating the construction industry in Khakassia, a republic of just over
500,000 people in southern Siberia whose titular nationality, a Turkic one,
forms only 12 percent of the population. Ethnic Russians form 82 percent of the
total. Among the deputies are some connected with construction.